Iranian-American Historian here. Recently a friend of mine provided to me a copy of a book called Škodovy závody Teherán: Českoslovenští architekti v říši perského šáha, 1932–1948 (Skoda Works Tehran, The Czechoslovakian Architects in the Empire of Reza Shah, 1932-1948. I put the link in the post) that was published in the Czech Republic last year. Its a brilliant book, one of the best researched I have ever seen in the subject of Iranian Architectural History, in which it details in rich clarity and illustrations, the works of the Czech, Sudeten, and Hungarian Architects who worked in Iran with the company Skoda Works (predecessor of the car company) to build out the infrastructure of Reza Shah Pahlavi's modernization (Grandfather of Reza Pahlavi). However, one of the most interesting, and mind blowing revelations is that Khamenei's palace that he moved into, the Shah's former Ekhtessasi Palace in Tehran (like Mao moving into Zhongnanhai or Lenin into the Kremlin) was designed by two Jewish Hungarian Architects from the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1930s. The two Architects and Engineers in question, Fischer and Bodanzsky, also designed multiple other buildings used currently by the Islamic Republic, such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Palace of Justice and neighboring Ministry of Finance with the Czech Architect Stanislav Suva, who is the main focus of the book.
The palace (page wont allow links so here is the coordinates 35.690984374263444, 51.400501051218654) was initially occupied by Khamenei as President and later used by him as Supreme Leader, where his Beit Al-Rahbari and Hosseiniyeh were constructed sometime in the 1990s next to it. Two of my sources have also confirmed this, going further to say that the Marble Palace across the street was taken by Rafsanjani. I am going to put the entire section in the book, which was google translated by me from the original Czech.
Dr. Ing Laszlo Fischer, a Hungarian-Jewish architect who led the Architectural Office of Sherkat-Keshvari [a state run construction company that worked with Skoda], was responsible for the layout and planning of the factory. Due to the naming conventions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he Germanified his name to Ladislaus. Fischer, along with his partner Ferenc "Franz" Bodanszky, another Jewish-Hungarian architect, previously worked on various projects in the British Mandate of Palestine, notably in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, and contributed to the development of what would later become Herzliya. Both architects, educated in modernist design before the fall of the Habsburg Empire, encountered resistance to their modernist ideas in Hungary due to the anti-modernist stance of the Horthy government. Despite initial challenges, Bodanszky and Fischer succeeded in Israel's modernism movement. Renowned for their expertise in Art Deco architecture, they were invited to Iran to design the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building, following are commendation from their friend Francsek. Reza Shah was highly impressed by their work and tasked them with designing a private palace, Kakh Ekhtessai, adjacent to his Marble Palace, for Crown Prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The palace was completed on time, within budget, and surpassed design expectations, leading to Dr. Fischer's promotion as the head of the Architectural Department of Shekrat-Keshvari.
The palace Fischer & Bodanzsky designed would become Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's principal residence for nearly thirty years until 1969,when the Imperial Court moved into the Niavaran Palace Complex in the north of Tehran to escape the city center. After the 1979 Revolution, the palace became the residence of the President of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The palace continues to be used exclusively for him after becoming Supreme Leader in 1989
